© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Matt May | Accessibility Evangelist Is Universal Design Still Possible?

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. How we got here  1990s  HTML 2.0   Accessibility guidelines  Building around semantics  WCAG 1.0 released in

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Late 1990s - Early 2000s 3

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Late 2000s 4

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. The first crossroads  Designing for mobile  “One Web” 5

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential

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© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What about Universal Design?  “The design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.” Ron Mace 8

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Seven Principles of Universal Design  Equitable use  Flexibility in use  Simple and intuitive  Perceptible information  Tolerance for error  Low physical effort  Size and space for approach and use 9

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Is Universal Design still possible? ? 10

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Universal Design in technology  Universal design = accepting entropy  If there are 3 types of screen, why shouldn’t we expect a 4 th ?  Designing for our future selves 11

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. The tools of the trade  Materials  Stone  Brick  Glass  Metal  Wood 12  Technologies  HTML  CSS  JavaScript  SVG  Flash

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. The tools of the trade  Built on…  Concrete  Wheels  Mud 13  Running on…  Mozilla  WebKit  IE

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. The tools of the trade  By people…  Who can’t walk well  Who use a wheelchair  Who can’t see  Who need directions 14  By people…  Who can’t use a mouse  Who can’t hear well  Who can’t see  Who need directions

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What makes a professional? 15 Engineers have vitalized and turned to practical use the principles of science and the means of technology. Were it not for this heritage, my efforts would be feeble. Obligation of the Engineer

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Professionalism  Rules vs. education  Evolving knowledge of problems  Designing for compatibility  Designing for use  Designing for situation 16

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. The tools of the trade  People  Needs and abilities  Permanent, temporary and situational disabilities  Technology  CPU  Bandwidth  Display  Browser and OS  Languages  Content 17

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.  One more thing… 18

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